[Kurona]

They got a guy from the extermination team in the cast, AND the inner demon of someone tries to eat his mother? Man, as someone who finally sat down and watched Amazons a few months ago and ended up loving Season 2 this premiere is gift-wrapped for me!

In all seriousness, this was... kinda just fine for me. Admittedly I was putting a lot of expectations on it -- Saber didn't do much for me and Zero-One was, uh. Frustrating? Frustrating for me. So Zi-O was the last time I really truly had fun with Kamen Rider, and Revice being an anniversary season that also looked absolutely bonkers? There's a lot of weight for this one to carry for me personally! And what I got was... well, didn't blow me away, but I'm sure as heck having fun. The worldbuilding is pretty well-packed as others have said; the set-up of Ikki and Vice's relationship is already decently established (it's basically Den-O episode 1 if Momotaros was fucked up and evil), and what stuck out the most to me was how WILD the fights are. Like, wow; I thought Vice was supposed to be the feral one here but Ikki's just going all out smashing walls and roundhouse kicking mooks by their necks and it's like-- GOD this is going to be an intense season, huh?!

I guess just for me I don't quite have a strong grasp on everything for me to truly fall in love just yet. But there is of course a lot of different things going on here, so I'm very willing to let the next few episodes expand on them. Not the strongest start, but hardly the weakest either; and really, I'm enjoying myself at the end of the day. Looking forward to the rest of the show!